(Author Note: Republicans won an electoral victory of
Biblical proportions a few days ago. Now
everything will be different. Or will
it? This piece was written three months ago and publication delayed by the
author until after the election.)
When the economy
shrinks points in the first quarter of the year with no media comments other
than the talk show hosts, one might conclude the fix is in. Certainly the administration does a well
publicized brag when the economy grows an anemic half point. This administration – by the way – is so sold
out to environmental activists like hundred million dollar donor Tom Steyer
they block construction of oil pipelines worth twenty thousand jobs and prevent
the Crow Nation from developing enormous fields of mineral wealth and natural
gas on their supposedly sovereign reservation in Montana. Of course this administration is a bunch of
Democrats. What about the Republicans?
Well,
what about the Republicans?
Even
though Barack Obama translated the economy from bad to disaster bad, it was the
Republicans who dropped us into recession in the first place. They did nothing serious to reduce
regulations or advance the social issues dear to the hearts of most conservatives
when they had power in Washington or Sacramento. They gave us tepid candidates like McCain and
Romney at the federal level alongside Kashkari, Whitman and Schwarzenegger in
California. (Four of the five lost
badly, but all the wealthy power brokers backed them.) They torpedoed their own nominees – in
California – Elizabeth Emken and Tim Donnelly.
In Virginia the sacrificial lamb was Ken Cuccinelli and in Mississippi
they knifed Chris McDaniel as he was coasting to victory over establishment Republican
Thad Cochran. The bottom line is the
establishment in both parties is far more interested in comfort and power than
winning elections. They do not want
winners who challenge the status quo.
Think Kevin McCarthy.
Don’t
get me wrong. There are plenty of fine
and principled conservatives in the Republican Party. Some – like California State Senator Jim
Nielsen and Congressman Doug LaMalfa – I am proud to call my friends. But the established Republican Party is
either suicidal or hiding the true intentions of those who make policy and sign
support checks for candidates. I believe
it is time for conservatives to form a third party.
Before
anyone begins to scream, “Third parties never win!” let’s review. It is true third parties never win in the
beginning. Teddy Roosevelt and Ross
Perot achieved nothing more than victory for their enemies and loss for their
former friends when they tried it in 1912 and 1992. But anyone looking for a quick fix for our
constitutional republic has been smoking wacky weed. It took a long time to destroy the strongest
economy and the baddest reputation for strength with integrity – making tyrants
tremble – to a power more interested in making its own citizens tremble than
fanatical Islamo-fascists – a power that abandons its own Marines held captive
by a Mexican drug cartel – Armando Torres – and the Mexican Government – Andrew
Tahmoressi.
The Republican
Party began life as a third party in 1854.
They lost every election they entered until Abraham Lincoln became
president in 1861. We are in for the
long haul or a pointless existence – it’s time to choose.
I am not
advancing theocracy here – they never govern well and they have been attempted
since Biblical times – militant Islam is just the latest and most brutal
incarnation. But I want to point out the
most successful third party in history was also one of the first: Ancient
Israel. When Moses came on the scene
what became the nation of Israel was a gaggle of captive peoples with
citizenship in the theocracy of the Egyptian Empire. The core of the Exodus was peopled by
descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but the Bible is clear they were a
hybrid community. It took them forty
years to win their first election. That
was the night Egypt sent them packing wearing pockets packed with Egyptian gold
and jewels.
Egypt
went back on her word to abide by the results, but by this time the Hebrews had
grown strong. And they had a Friend who
could part the sea itself.
I
am not advocating a theocratic party or movement. But every political movement is grounded in
faith of some kind. Politics is simply
the application of that faith to a plan of practical action in the secular
arena. There are elements in the
Republican Party committed to the Judeo-Christian faith and values in which
this nation is rooted. They believe in
freedom of religion and enterprise for all and they have no use for rule by the
mullahs of any faith. I am one of them
and I believe it is time for us to get packed and headed for the Red Sea. We might even find a Friend awaiting our
arrival.
James A. Wilson is the author of Living
As Ambassadors of Relationships and The
Holy Spirit and the End Times – available at local bookstores or by
e-mailing him at
praynorthstate@charter.net
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